Libcom.org traffic analysis 2010

Statistics on libcom.org's readership figures between January 2009 and December 2010.

As mentioned a while ago, we said we would get together some more detailed statistical analysis of traffic to libcom.org.

As we now have two years of complete data using the same stats system (Google analytics) we thought now would be a good time to do that.

The annual figures show modest but significant improvements on last year. However, results over the last quarter of 2010 point to potentially very large increases in our readership. Time will tell if these are fleeting or lasting.

A quick note on traffic statistics first, though, is that different stats systems measure traffic in very different ways. So two different systems can give wildly different results. Our system excludes all bots, and only counts real visits by people.

We have a total of 23,595 registered users, excluding banned users. However, this does not mean much as many of them may be spammers. Here is the data we have on active users (excluding lurkers, whom we cannot count).

2010 has seen the highest number of users contributing articles themselves since libcom.org began.

Total users who've ever posted one or more comments:
3765

Total number of users who've posted articles (i.e. something other than a forum topic or comment):
380

Thanks again everyone who has contributed content, or contributed to discussions, or who has posted up links to libcom elsewhere on the net over the past year.

We will soon be doing some more analysis of our traffic compared to other radical websites. Watch this space…

If there is anything else people would like to know about the figures please ask in the comment section below.

1. we will be back to using 2010 annual figures for the rest of this piece

2. The absolute number of articles shown below may appear higher in 2006 but many of those were not new articles, they were articles imported when we merged our two content management systems into one.

3. Was counted prior to December 31. N.b. this does not include forum topics, of which there are 18,955

No worries. Monthly totals are kind of annoying to get. Those ones above based on dividing the annual figure by 12, or quarterly figure by three.

I will post it up if I get time though

the data in general confirms the pattern which I thought was happening: that amount of articles, news, history and all that has been going up significantly, and forum posting has gone down as we have prioritised the more serious areas of the site and tried to improve the culture of the forums (of course, part of the culture of the forums improving was also due to different antagonistic groups of people leaving, first primitivists, then later class war types and national liberation supporting anarchists which also reduced forum posting)

Just had a look at the traffic, because things seem quite a bit busier to me recently. Figures over the last month have basically doubled since the end of 2009. If I come across any more useful statistics I will do a more detailed post

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